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Academy Admission Test

Quantitative Test

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Q1: Company C produces toy trucks at cost of $5,00 each for the first 100 trucks and $3,50
for each additional truck. If 500 toy trucks were produced by company C and sold for $10,00
each, what was company C’s gross profit?

(A) $2.250
(B) $2.500
(C) $3.100
(D) $3.250
(E) $3.500

Q2: There are five sales agents in a certain real estate office. One month Audry sold half as
many properties as Ellen, Brian sold 3 more properties than Audry, Cary sold twice as many
as Brian, and Dora sold as many as Brian and Audry together. Who sold the most properties
that month?

(A) Andy
(B) Bob
(C) Cary
(D) Dora
(E) Ellen

Q3: A grocer has 400 pounds of coffee in stock, 20 percent of which is decaffeinated. If the
grocer buys another 100 pounds of coffee of which 60 percent is decaffeinated, what percent,
by weight, of the grocer’s stock of coffee is decaffeinated?

(A) 28%
(B) 30%
(C) 32%
(D) 34%
(E) 40%

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Q4: At the opening of a trading day at a certain stock exchange, the price per share of stock K
was $9. If the price per share of stock K was $8 at the closing of the day, what was the percent
decrease in the price per share of stock K for that day?

(A) 1.4%
(B) 5.9%
(C) 11.1%
(D) 12.5%
(E) 23.6%

Q5: Last week Jack worked 70 hours and earned $1,260. If he earned his regular hourly wage
for the first 40 hours worked, 1.5 times his regular hourly wage for the next 20 hours worked,
and 2 times his regular hourly wage for the remaining 10 hours worked, what was the regular
hourly wage?

(A) $7.00
(B) $14.00
(C) $18.00
(D) $22.00
(E) $31.50

Q6: On a certain transatlantic crossing, 20% of a ship’s passengers held round-trip tickets
and also took their cars aboard the ship. If 60% of the passengers with round-trip tickets did
not take their cars aboard the ship, what percent of the ship’s passengers held round-trip
tickets?

(A) 33,33%
(B) 40%
(C) 50%
(D) 60%
(E) 66,66%

Q7: For the past n days, the average (arithmetic mean) daily production at a company was 50
units. If today’s production of 90 units raises the average to 55 units per day, what is the value
of n?

(A) 30
(B) 18
(C) 10
(D) 9
(E) 7

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Q8: Of the 150 houses in a certain development, 60 percent have air-conditioning, 50 percent
have a sunporch, and 30 percent have a swimming pool. If 5 of the houses have all three of
theses amenities and 5 have none of them, how many of the houses have exactly two of these
amenities?
(A) 10
(B) 45
(C) 50
(D) 55
(E) 65

Q9: Note: Your job is to decide whether the data given in each of the statements is sufficient
(enough) to answer the given question, not to find the answer to the question.

Last year, a certain company began manufacturing product X and sold every unit of product X
that it produced. Last year the company’s total expenses for manufacturing product were equal
to $100,000 plus 5 percent of the company’s total revenue from all units of product X sold. If
the company made a profit on product X last year, did the company sell more than 21,000 units
of product X last year?
1. The company’s total revenue from the sale of product X last year was greater than
$110,000.
2. For each unit of product X sold last year, the company’s revenue was $5.

(A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient
(B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient
(C) Both statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient
(D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient

Q10: Note: Your job is to decide whether the data given in each of the statements is sufficient
(enough) to answer the given question, not to find the answer to the question.
If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last month, how much did Pat earn last month?

1. Pat spent ½ of his earnings last month for living expenses and saved 1/3 of the
remainder.
2. Of his earnings last month, Pat paid twice as much in taxes as he saved.

(A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient
(B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient
(C) Both statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient
(D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient